Memory and The OtherHow do media participate in public memory?- Stories- Beliefs- Events- Example: WWII, slavery, political reality, 9/11Media articulate memory-How we fix ourselves in space and time-Media are:- Storytellers- Archives- Provider of the souvenirMedia and Identity-Our own pasts are bound up with images and sounds of our mediated past- Music- Programs- AdvertisementsMedia define the past- By presenting- By re-presenting it-Claim historical authority through realism:- Drama- Documentary (mobilization of witnesses, reconstruction of situations, uncovering of evidence)All memory is partial- Rhetoric of media-particular versions of a past which includes and excludes- Battles over memory (other claim different pasts, refuse the limits of one interpretation of events)The Other- How are Others represented or “seen”o Ethnicityo Religiono Homelesso Gays and lesbianso The poor-How to represent without exoticizing/villanizing -How to represent without absorbing him or her into my own sense of selfProximity and distance-Responsibility for the Other requires proximity; distance spells dangerQ-what does Silverstone mean?Media and responsibility-Media images can keep us apart by producing images that disable care and responsibility:- Images of conflicts without bloodshed- Bombing without damage- Battles without armies- War without victims- Actions without consequences- Example: Gulf War (1992)Ephemerality of media- Here now, gone tomorrow- “And now this…”-